New Haven: 1961. First. hardcover. Foreword by Dudley Fitts. Small 8vo, d.w. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1961. His first book. Vol. 57 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Ownership signature of poet Peter Davison, who has turned down the corners of some pages and made pencilled notes..."sour, cynical, amusing, wry, the crestfallen indomitable humor of the barracks." fine / very good(+).